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As prison populations rise across much of Europe, Greens have focused on legislation, decriminalising certain offences while endorsing a liberal approach to prisons centred on resocialisation and better conditions. However, campaigners push for more radical solutions, such as replacing prisons with detention houses rooted in communities.

Night rail travel remains riddled with problems, but efforts are underway to make it more reliable and accessible.

Political ecology must strive to build broader alliances, regain public trust, and become a governing force for systemic change.

Could an approach based on values give new strength to Czech and European foreign policy?

In our era of relentless crises, politics is trapped in the present, and the future seems to be closing in. The collective act of imagining new possibilities – a core feature of modern democracy – has given way to a politics based on opinion polls, short-term market projections, and economic indicators. Can the EU, itself the expression of a technocratic project, revive a politics of community oriented towards the world to come? A conversation between Elena Polivtseva and Jonathan White, author of In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea.

With shifting political priorities at the European level, could energy conflicts contribute to a fairer transition rather than slowing it down?

Can Europe take the lead in normalising a better, more sustainable wellbeing indicator?

Europe needs to form more partnerships to strengthen its autonomy and resist commercial coercion.

Two Catalan hospitals are trying to resolve the healthcare sector’s climate paradox.

By allowing CO₂ removal and storage technologies as a way of lowering emissions, the target risks deterring direct emission cuts.